This page contains a selction of what I consider my better posts. Without a doubt this is vanity publishing.
The Ultimate Kill File. My First ever humour post to the group.
Tags - Why they are evil. A swift attack on those who vocally don't want to use tags.
3rd Edition Rant Generator. Largely redundant now that 3rd edition is here
First I dealt with obvious things. Auction, Sale, [AUC] junked. The words Avatar & Laser together dooms a post to oblivion (look, I'm sorry for restarting that thread, sorry). Khorne & armour, is right out. Posts involving the word price & gouge/ridiculous/huge, etc. burn in silicon hell; we know the prices are too high. A game system mentioned along with old die a death, I've played GW games for 8 years, I know how much better it used to be. 'Cheesy' & 'Tactic' is left to moulder as I do not want to know about another rules loop hole that's been exploited.
Then I came across a more difficult problem, posts where the subject line doesn't fully disclose the horror beneath. A sophisticated PERL script scans male members' posts for references to D and puts the more interesting ones in a 'special' folder. All AOL posts are automatically siphoned off, checked for legibility; then junked anyway. Army reviews are passed through a selection of cheese tests, troll gates and legality checking before being allowed on my computer. My newly patented Dodgy Physics Detector (TM) spots scientific arguments from afar a quickly diverts all the posts from idiots who are making it up. Rule questions are given a grey area rating, I do not want another Khorne armour on my machine. Finally a Python script checks for the phrases 'putting words in my mouth', 'out of context' and 'I don't want to flame you but' and stops those posts from ever reaching me.
I finally had 157 kill rules and 1563 lines of script. The end result was, when I checked the newsgroup this evening there were 2 posts that weren't killed. I have since removed the kill file and let the fun back in my life.
I can't stand it, more posts have been sent to this NG asking us to use tags. These people are instructing us to use tags on our posts on the flimsy pretext that it will save them time. They can't make me use tags so why the hell should I. I've never used tags and I NEVER WILL. Also it's an extra 4 or 5 characters onto EVERY post, that adds up to a lot of bandwidth.
This is a free forum where any one can speak. What they are trying to do is get rid of MY posts, it's an infringement of free speech; it's outrageous what they are trying to force on us. I think that these people should be barred from the NG.
It won't stop at tags either they'll try to get the NG moderated, try to become the moderators until only tag attached, approved posts appear on this NG. These people are the thought police, fascists. They're after me now. THEY MUST BE STOPPED.
Join the anti-tags campaign. Post a message to the NG entitled "[MISC] [TAGS] [VOTE] No tags wanted"
Recently I've read a lot of very similar rants about the 3rd edition, these must have taken a lot of effort to write so I've decided to save everyone time. Replace each bracketed letter with a choice from the lists below to generate your own 3rd edition rant.
[A] 3rd Ed 40K will suck. I mean look at the [B], they're gonna get screwed over, big time. The 3rd Ed will also mean [C] will no longer be legal. And another thing, what about the [D] , a complete over simplification and a clear indication that 3rd Ed is going to be aimed at 10 year olds. Look I've been playing GW games [E] what GW are doing to 40K is [F].
I most certainly won't be buying the 3rd Edition.
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